displaying results from a mysql database - php

Question

Working on a project to display a list of cars
$username="username";
$password="password";
$database="listofcars";
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", $username, $password, $database);
#mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
$query2="SELECT * FROM cars";
$result=$mysqli->query($query2);
$num=$mysqli->mysqli_num_rows($result);
$mysqli->close();
echo "
<div class="item">
<div class="container">
<div class="imgcontainer"><img alt="Cars for sale" src="$carimage" width="380" height="380" /></div>
<div class="details">
<a href="$internallink" target="_blank">
<h3 class="title"> $carname <br />
<span> $cartype </span></h3>
<p>
$cardesc
</p>
<div class="button"><span data-hover="Order Car">Order Car</span></div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
I need it to loop the results
database name: listofcars
tablename: cars
Field names
carsid
carname
carimage
cartype
internallink
cardesc

Answer 1

Try this to see if it works.
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "listofcars";
// Create connection
$mysqli = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if (!$mysqli) {
die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
$sql = "SELECT * FROM cars";
$result = mysqli_query($mysqli, $sql);
?>
<?php while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) { ?>
<div class="item">
<div class="container">
<div class="imgcontainer">
<img alt="Cars for sale" src="<?php echo $row['carimage']; ?>" width="380" height="380">
</div>
<div class="details">
<a href="<?php echo $row['internallink']; ?>" target="_blank">
<h3 class="title"><?php echo $row['carname']; ?><br><span><?php echo $row['cartype']; ?></span></h3>
<p><?php echo $row['cardesc']; ?></p>
<div class="button">
<span data-hover="Order Car">Order Car</span>
</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
mysqli_close($mysqli);

Answer 2

You need to leave the connection open until you are done and loop through it after running the query.
Something like
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "listofcars";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
//Query
$sql = "SELECT * FROM cars";
$result = mysqli_query ($conn, $sql);
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
//Whatever you want to do for each row...
echo "
<div class='item'>
<div class='container'>
<div class='imgcontainer'><img alt='Cars for sale' src='".$row[carimage]."' width='380' height='380' /></div>
<div class='details'>
<a href='".$row[internallink]."' target='_blank'>
<h3 class='title'> ".$row[carname]." <br />
<span> ".$row[cartype]." </span></h3>
<p>
".$row[cardesc]."
</p>
<div class='button'><span data-hover='Order Car'>Order Car</span></div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>";
}
$conn->close();